THE FAMILIAR by Julian Quentin

Alien crashes on an inhospitable planet and tries to contact his*her home planet. While searching, Alien experiences a world in which Alien is simultaneously trapped and repelled. When discovering someone who returns Alien’s gaze, they create themselves a sanctuary. The film reflects identity issues and themes of otherness. In doing so, he creates a surreal…

THE SMILE by Erik van Schaaik

That wipes the smile off his face! When a world-famous film star is accused of eating his female co-stars, his career goes down the drain. However, this actor happens to be a crocodile by the name of Smiley. Crocodiles are much loved characters in horror movies and the audience expects them to eat people. Smiley…

FIRST BLOOD by Olivia Loccisano

A teenage girl goes through a bizarre transformation after she gets her first period. Olivia Loccisano is a storyteller from Toronto, Canada. Her work centers around transformations of the female body, specifically through dark fantasy, body horror and magical realism. Through storytelling, she explores how young women and children navigate strange realms of life through…

UNSCARFED by Anita Bruneburg

Three people serve a giantess in a huge palace. They wear long blue scarves around their necks which they never take off, not even during sleep. Once in a while the giantess chooses one of her servants, drags that servant into her chambers and takes their scarf off. WW0711 statement: Artful animation that opens up…

A BLOODY GRAVEYARD STORY by Vanessa Stachel

Three teenagers have an unexpected encounter when they sneak into a cemetery at night to summon an exceptionally terrible ghost.. Vanessa Stachel likes to move thematically somewhere between horror and colourful glitter fairies. She studied communication design, worked freelance in the field of film/advertising/motion design and began studying directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany…

DECLIN by Elise Huyssen

« Suffering from Alzheimer’s, a pensioner is facing his caregiver going mysteriously missing. Confused, he looks for her in his nursing home’s hallways but he is prey to disturbing apparitions… » Coming from the directing course at 3IS PARIS, the lost of her grandfather to Alzheimer’s inspired Elise Huyssen to create « DECLIN ». Immersed…

MY LITTLE CREATURE by Álvaro Laguna

Flor and Guido’s quiet life in their cabin in the woods will change forever with the arrival of a strange creature. Álvaro Laguna (Sevilla, 1986) cantautor, productor musical y cineasta. Después de más de 10 años trabajando de manera profesional en el mundo de la música, comienza a desarrollar su carrera cinematográfica en 2015 con…